During these turbulent economic times, Gordon Brown is keen for the country to stick by him. However, this probably wasn't quite what he had in mind.

Dan Glass, of the climate change pressure group Plane Stupid, today tried to superglue himself to the Prime Minister at a Downing Street reception. As Mr Glass, 24, was introduced to the Premier, he laid a glue-covered hand on his sleeve. He also took the opportunity to urge Mr Brown to change his mind on the Heathrow airport expansion.

Mr Glass told the assembled guests: 'Do not worry - this is a non-violent protest. We cannot shake away climate change like you can just shake away my arm.'

Mr Glass, who had smuggled pouches of glue into the event in his underwear, added later that Mr Brown laughed off the protest. 'He was just grinning about it,' he said. 'He didn't seem to take me seriously.'

Probably because he was embarrased that this was someone on his side of the political spectrum.

New York Times Co. says its second-quarter earnings fell 82 percent from the year-ago quarter boosted by a one-time gain. Meanwhile, print advertising revenue continued to shrink.

Revenue dropped 6 percent to $741.9 million, missing the average Wall Street estimate for $754 million. Ad revenue slipped down 11 percent, hurt mostly by fewer classified ads.

Chief Executive Janet Robinson says business was hurt by the "U.S. economic slowdown and secular forces playing out across the media industry."

"Secular forces"….

How about biased, sloppy, and possibly treasonous "journalism"?

New York rapper Nas has joined a protest against FOX News.

Citing what he calls "race baiting" and "Obama smears" by FOX, Nas will join ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org to deliver more than 620,000 petition signatures demanding that the network end its "pattern of racist attacks against black Americans," among them presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.

I wonder if this is a continuation of a protest against the Hillary campaign which first played the race card?

Probably not.

In a statement to media, Nas, ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org announced the petition will be delivered to FOX's Manhattan offices on July 23 at 2 p.m. ET.

In joining the protest, Nas cites FOX's portrayal of the Obamas as outsiders, as well as an on-screen graphic referring to Michelle Obama as "Obama's baby mama" and the confusing of Obama and Osama by a pundit, who joked that they should both be assassinated. In February, Bill O'Reilly talked about a "lynching party" to deal with Michelle Obama.

"FOX poisons the country with racist propaganda and tries to call it news," Nas said in the statement.

Democrats are very good about indoctrinating the youth in the entertainment industry, after all, you don't tow the line, you'll never work in this town again.

Seeing how hip hop and rap artists are "originality-challenged", it will be interesting to see if he can go beyond recitations once he exhausts his talking points.

A group of politically conservative and centrist Hollywood figures organized by actor Gary Sinise and others has been meeting quietly in restaurants and private homes, forming a loose-knit network of entertainers who share common beliefs like supporting U.S. troops and traditional American values.

The group, whose members call themselves "Friends of Abe" after Abraham Lincoln, was organized as an underground movement because of fears that prominent industry titans with outspoken liberal views would retaliate, said participants. They often were reluctant to name members of the group in interviews for fear it would hurt their careers.

Should I ever get the patience to write a book, I'll devote a chapter to my experience as a black man who publicly converted to Republicanism while working in Hollywood.

Tolerant, inclusive, and free speech-minded liberals had no problems "blacklisting" me, knowing what it would do to my family. I still have a chip (the size of a cinder block) on my shoulder.

Edwards, Rielle Hunter, Busted: HuffPo 's Sam Stein, who got the story rolling, appears to be vindicated. … P.S.: Always trust content from kausfiles! Never trust content from Jerome Armstrong. … P.P.S.: Will this be the first presidential-contender level scandal to occur completely in the undernews, without ever being reported in the cautious, respectable MSM? That's always seemed an interesting theoretical possibility–a prominent politician just disappears from the scene, after blogs and tabloids dig up dirt on him, but nobody who relies on the Times, Post, network news or Mark Halperin has the faintest idea why. If this is that case, it will have come along sooner than I would have thought. … P.P.P.S.: But it's hard to believe the MSM can ignore the story now. Don't think Obama will! …

And to think it was being floated that John Edwards was being considered for Obama's veep.

Then again, screwing around is a Democrat badge of honor.

So much for those testosterone digs…

I find myself in the last bastion of male dominance, and realizing what Hillary Clinton might have realized not long ago: Sexism in the American society is more common than racism, and certainly more acceptable or forgivable.
— Katie Couric, interview in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz

Sexism, eh? Isn't Katie Couric paid around $15 million a year for coming in last…?

You're right, something IS wrong.

How liberal.

The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention has used the city's gas pumps to fill up and apparently avoided paying state and federal fuel taxes.

The disclosure brought immediate scrutiny. Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said the practice "would seem" to be illegal and referred the matter to the state Department of Revenue. Nonprofits, such as the host committee, are subject to state and federal gasoline taxes, according to the Department of Revenue.

"There's something there that just doesn't seem right to me because, in a sense, you're saying then that the officials who pass the laws are not willing to live by them," said Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz.

Now, check out the liberal song-and-dance…

"I do know for a fact that they're doing the same exact thing in Minneapolis," Hickenlooper said, referring to the city that along with St. Paul is hosting the Republican National Convention.

But Teresa McFarland, a spokeswoman for the Minneapolis-St. Paul host committee, said its members are getting their gas at public pumps. "We're not getting a tax break on fuel," she said. "That's not the setup at this end."

Busted, and caught in a lie.

The host committee, which is responsible for raising money to put on the convention, is using the city's pumps "for safety and security reasons," Lopez said. "We know the gas is not tainted," he said. "We use it as a safety and security measure."

"Safety and security measure" and "tainted" gasoline? Are we full of ourselves or what…?

Hickenlooper said GM is "loaning" the host committee vehicles and he expects a large number to be hybrids. It wasn't clear Tuesday whether host committee members are using those loaners or their personal vehicles.

Dick Wadhams, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, said the city's arrangement with the DNC host committee was "appalling."

"I'm hoping this is not the first of many stories about how Colorado taxpayers are apparently subsidizing the Democratic convention," Wadhams said.

After the meeting, Faatz said it was wrong for the DNC host committee to get a tax break. "I am just troubled by not having the payment of taxes for what I consider to be a privately funded party, and that's what the host committee is: it's a private organization," she said.

Of course, this in not surprising. Democrats have a proud tradition of exempting themselves from the policies they impose on the rest of us. Call it the entitlement mentality from the top down.

Barack Obama may be on a world tour surrounded by a fawning media, but Sunday an expert in electronic document forensics released a detailed report on the purported birth certificate — actually a "Certification of Live Birth" or COLB — claimed as genuine by his campaign. The expert concludes with 100% certainty that it is a crudely forged fake: "a horribly forgery," according to the analysis published on the popular right-wing Atlas Shrugs blog.

The problem here is we are depending on a media that's familiar with "forged but accurate" documents. The very same media that's drunk with euphoria following the candidate who may not be eligible to be president.

Let the Kool Aid drinkers pounce.